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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 07:53:24 -0500
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On 7/8/2024 8:51 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 7/8/2024 5:55 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 7/8/2024 3:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 7/8/2024 9:18 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>  'Military use' or 'purposeful military design' are not 
>>>> at all clear or helpful terms. 
>>>
>>> They are descriptive terms easily understood by those 
>>> with no emotional attachment to their firearms. In past 
>>> discussions, specific design features have been well 
>>> described.
>>>
>>>> The best special forces sharpshooters use very expensive 
>>>> precision single shot bolt action rifles, not crappy 
>>>> 'spray and pray' automatics.
>>>
>>> As described over and over, AR pattern guns were 
>>> originally designed for military use. Most of their 
>>> design features have no legitimate civilian use, other 
>>> than giving a temporary testosterone boost to some guys 
>>> at a shooting range. One can say similar things about 
>>> many handguns.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for making my point again, by as usual purposefully 
>> conflating full auto AR or AK or whatever long guns with 
>> semi civilian models.
> 
> Light weight, compact size, light ammunition allowing 
> carrying lots of rounds, magazines that are big and 
> replaceable with huge ones, grips that aid portability when 
> running and aid recoil control during rapid fire, plus many 
> available "custom" attachments make AR and AK guns the 
> weapon of choice for killing unsuspecting crowds, just as 
> their military brethren do with enemy combatants. Civilian 
> full auto may be rare, but it's not required for that job of 
> mass murder, as many incidents have proven.
> 
> And who needs to empty a 30 round magazine in under a minute 
> anyway?
> 

Apparently not you.

But someone. They are a standard commodity, available 
anywhere with declining prices reflecting high volume 
production by many vendors.  I think I'm on the side of 
crowdsourced judgement here, not you as an expert.
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971